TY - JOUR T1 - <em>The Doctor's Dilemma</em> — 100 years on JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 76 LP - 76 VL - 57 IS - 534 AU - Mike Pringle Y1 - 2007/01/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/57/534/76.abstract N2 - On Monday 20 November there was a reading of Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma at the Royal College of Physicians, London, to mark the centenary of its first performance. When I was flattered into agreeing to take part, I had heard of it and even quoted from it; but I had never read it or been to a performance.On getting the play through Amazon, my first impression was of timelessness. The play addresses, through absurdity and great humour, many of our current dilemmas in medicine. In particular, the central conundrum concerns rationing. A recently knighted physician has a full ward of consumptive patients, all … ER -